Outside New York

Reading The Age of Purification as I am, in a hotel room in Chicago, it is so comforting to be re-immersed into the neurotic, constantly paranoid world of New York.

“We’re obsessed with the idea that our environments have turned against us, that they are poisoning us and we have no choice in the matter,” Dr. Guynn added. “We’ve been contaminated by something that you cannot eradicate, you can only treat.”